Agatha Christie (1890–1976) is the unmatched queen of detective fiction, who revolutionized the crime genre, the lifelong president of the English Detective Club, and a lady honored with a noble title for her literary achievements. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" is a novel ranked third worldwide among Agatha Christie's detective books after "And Then There Were None" and "Murder on the Orient Express." It was recognized as the best detective novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 2013. Before Christie, no one had come up with such an original plot twist that distracts attention and diverts suspicion from the real culprit. Clever Lady Agatha led the reader around by the finger! The novel was adapted into a film titled "Alibi" in the UK in 1931, and in Russia it was released under the name "Poirot's Failure," directed by Sergey Ursulyak in 2002.